2025-10-19 22:46:27
All the NASA s/c images of #3IATLAS shared today (and some more) can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/comet-3i-atlas-image-gallery/ now - including this spectrum from the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on MAVEN taken on 28 September, showing hydrogen emitted from different sources, namely the comet (dim spot on the far left), hydrogen from Mars (bright emission on the right), and hydrogen flowing through our solar system between the planets (dim emission in the middle).
Just finished filming a video, who can guess what it was about? #Plushtodon ;)
Travis Kelce pushes back on retirement talk, wants to focus on Chiefs' remaining games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6905047/2025/12/19/travis-kelce-retirement-comments-chiefs/
Tennessee Titans place Calvin Ridley on injured reserve with broken leg https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/tennessee-titans-place-calvin-ridley-on-injured-reserve-with-broken-leg
Here's my physics professor and friend Carl Franck and family after the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest on a rainy summer day
#photo #photography #ForestFriday
Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin
Green light.
#photography
D12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: [Shakes head] As long as the installation is right.
AVON: Well, the only problem now is: where do we find enough raw material to keep this lot running? [He is moving about, looking at various circuit boards and so forth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/103 B7B3
Moody Urbanity - Inclination ↖️
情绪化城市 - 傾斜 ↖️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I've said this before, but all these publications that write news stories about what ransomware and other threat actors claim on their leak sites are a scourge on cybersecurity reporting. They are posting false brags and playing right into threat actors' hands. They should be ashamed.
I’ve been really interested in both aspects of this post:
1. ICE right-wing fringe groups conspicuously steered clear of protests yesterday in a way that suggests that orders went out (whose?) and/or (I’m guessing “and”) that there’s a sense from those people that they don’t have public support and don’t have free license to instigate violence.
2. Police went out of their way to put on a friendly face. I’ve been getting vibes that some local police resent ICE — “this is OUR turf, beating up Black and brown people was OUR job” — and, contrary to what we and the regime might expect, ICE isn’t always getting free support by default from that quarter.
Caveats: No solid conclusions here, just reading vibes. And even if it is actually true for now, all of this can shift on a dime. Still, sure is notable. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3m3krd3w4s22k
Quinnen Williams leaning on Football IQ to “Fit right in” https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-leaning-on-football-iq-to-fit-right-in
Post to NANOG: "Hello guys from [CloudFlare] please allow the "pause CF" button to work via API or via any other way even if there is an outage."
Right so you want it so that when there is a global outage affecting all of their systems, they want to have a backup system that runs just enough to turn off CloudFlare…?
I am sure they will get right on that, implementing their second isolated company on fully redundant infrastructure
An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin
Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Western Gull looking around. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California,USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO. #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Drugdealer:
🎵 It's Only Raining Right Where You're Standing
#Drugdealer
https://drugdealerband.bandcamp.com/track/its-only-raining-right-where-youre-standing
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XLye2xYwqnq1aOFsbP1Ac
A few years back, wifey and I did a project together, as we often do. We wanted to do a very specific mashup - death metal and Pokémon. It's admittedly a niche. But we wanted to choose Cubone because that's the name of our furry son (the one in my avi). And the Pokémon's back story, wearing his dead mom's skull, it's pretty metal. Original shirt inspiration on the right, for reference (I have a very worn copy of this one). I sketched it out, she painted (she's so tale…
Hope that moderation lists make it over from Bluesky as a feature on here.
E.g. I'd love to share onr of alt-right people and their collaborators in the Ruby community so it's easy to mute or block them.
Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530
I‘m a bit amused that Americans on the left are boycotting Disney for deplatforming Jimmy Kimmel when those on the right have also been boycotting Disney for being “too woke”.
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
I would think Robbo for Kerkez at the half is a must. Still risky against Amad’s speed, but Kerkez is a liability right now. The completely whiffed slide tackle late in the half was the embodiment of his messy gambling.
Mac Allister still struggling and I would bring Curtis Jones on too. Concerns about his head injury, sure, but he’s struggled for form all season.
And this would be a fine time for Salah to get right.
There has been good stuff, too, lost by poor or unlucky f…
Wow, she's a horrible leader. Listening to her total rubbish on RNZ right now. She and her party are total crap. Mining, trickle down from foreign investors & corporations, pollution is A Ok, fossil fuels, 'growth' ueber alles. Total shitshow. These folks need to be gone.
For the record, totally support the Greens giving notice to extractive industries that their permits will be pulled.
The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.
Good morning! . Sneakers aren't the right footwear any more at -5°C. That's what my toes tell me.
#goodmorning #morningwalk #bayern
This guy just unicycled past me. Right near where I live. I do not know him. What is this, a challenge? This is my turf!!!!
#unicycleLife #unicycle #unicyclist
Germany's chancellor really is doing everything he can to continue his far-right fishing expeditions, this time on the back of Brazil. That'll ultimately probably lead to him paving the way for Nazi Germany 2.0 even more…
El canciller alemšn Merz y su paso en falso en Brasil – DW – 19/11/2025
https://www.dw.com/es/contento-de-poder-volver-a-alemania-merz-enfurece-a-brasil/a-74812629?maca=spa-rss-sp-inter-1008-rdf
Trump's executive order on cannabis isn't about medical research. He hates medical research. He defunds science. You can pretty much guarantee that right now he's trying to find a way for the Trump family to cash in. That's his only game.
So, let's suppose you'd want to roll your own distro. It's special, right?
Well. if you include KDE Plasma you might as well shelve that project straight-away.
Nothing you'll do hasn't been done before (and very good) by a shitload of predecessors. Let alone, if you base it on Arch. In 2026? That's stale, man. Give up and move on.
Ramaswamy warns Fuentes's 'Groyper' movement shows identity politics on the Right (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3923850/vivek-ramaswamy-nick-fuentes-groyper-movement-identity-politics-right/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p78#a251217p78
Your Digital Reputation
Honest, practical conversations with the leaders getting social media right in the moments that matter most...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/your-digital-reputation/
The bar for “making it” on the internet is when the bigots randomly start coming out of the woodwork to address you right?
Y’all, I’ve made it.
yes, that was me on the corner of jackson & stadium holding up my POWER to the PEOPLE sign, flashing peace signs to enthusiastic supporters in passing cars, filled with hope and inspiration from the crowd and the noise
power to the homeless, to the refugees, to the victims of racism and poverty, of oppression and injustice, power to the people right now
Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…
Restricting #JuryTrials
"It will make only a marginal difference to the problem it seeks to solve.
"But it is fair to suppose that the main motive for the change is increasing the power of the state at the expense of the people by stripping out a check on the power of the Establishment."
MPs are right to rebel over jury plans | Morning Star
You know what? I stick with Firefox. The Mozilla management might be detached idiots, but I firmly believe that the people actually making the browser, the engineers, have their heart at the right place.
They've shown it time and time again, bullshit got announced but not much actually happened. There was always a checkbox to get rid of that crap.
Unless the actual browser on my device does something unforgivable, I stay.
Quinnen Williams leaning on Football IQ to “Fit right in” https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-leaning-on-football-iq-to-fit-right-in
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"And now the day was spent, the hour stole on when one would doubt if it were light or dark, some lingering light at night's vague borderlands. Suddenly the whole house began to shake, the lamps flared up, and all the rooms were bright with flashing crimson fires, and phantom forms of savage beasts of prey howled all arou…
Moody Urbanity - TWO 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I hate trying to work with OS/2. I'm told this worked on IBM systems, but it's a pain in the ass on anything else. Right now, it can see the drive, crate partitions, but not volumes. And it needs volumes to install.
I'm at the point where I be happy if it nuked my two windows installs (because I can put those back) if it would just install itself....
#retrocomputing
Giants vs. Vikings prediction: With nothing going right for New York, Minnesota will come out on top
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-vs-vikings-where-to-watch-pick-od…
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE https://www.404media.co/contractor-paying-random-people-300-to-physically-track-immigrants-for-ice/
TIL 2 things about Slack that surprised me:
PSA 1: Slack doesn’t have a “Block” function. It does however have a “Hide” function.
PSA 2: By default, Slack includes everyone’s email address in the info you get when you right-click on them and view their profile. Thankfully, this can be turned off.
I think Apple News should support something like the "live blog" format you see on news websites for developing stories - ie being able to temporarily subscribe to a specific outlet's story updates, and see timestamped updates / notifications.
Right now the app still feels like "magazine", rather than "news".
The International Mountain Biking Association helped build this trail in Shindagin Hollow State forest to train our local club how to build and maintain trails
#photo #photography #forest
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: All right... all right. Now... now don't move. Now, just look around and tell me what you see.
KRELL: [V.O.] What? I heard something.
LEYLAN: What is it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/555 B7B4
Well not on Bits n Bytes right now, but live on a friend's channel for the moment if folks are bored and want to tune in.
Won't be live too late, but here now and chatting about MrDev's new Proxmox install.
https://www.twitch.tv/mrdevmansir
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
California Scrub Jay, standing on a branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. August, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #jay #scrubjay
I guess we should probably add #Clankerslop and #FurryPorn to Cypher's list
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
"However, by 2015, support for independence stood at 52% among those on the left, compared with just 24% among those on the right – a difference of 28 points... In our most recent survey in 2024, those on the left were 34 points more likely than those on the right to say that Scotland should become an independent country"
#ScottishIndependence
How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC using a single incautious Panorama edit, after years of attacks by UK conservatives on the BBC (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-plan-to-bring-down-a-giant.php…
Tomorrow night, we lock in projection angles and test locations.
We’ll paint buildings with Stephen Miller’s face and the line:
“Fascism ain’t pretty.”
We’ll make sure Trump, Miller, and their staff can’t avoid it
—in windows, on walls, across plazas.
Your support for the Save America Movement will fund projection crews and gear, replenishment teams, and high-foot-traffic coverage.
Our deadline is TONIGHT.
We need the full $50,000 to do this right, …
"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)
Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
The Process Is Working: Raiders Quietly Trending in Right Direction https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-washington-commanders-pete-carroll-geno-smith
Strange concrete sculptures circa 1960 near that big cluster of trees in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #landscape
And you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Well, at least we can hide here.
RASHEL: Don't you see?
COSER: I should have known better. A labor-grade slave. You're pathetic.
[Reception chamber]
SERVALAN: Travis, you are pathetic.
TRAVIS: If you say so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/53
Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Get It Right
#ArethaFranklin
https://soulbombs.bandcamp.com/track/aretha-franklin-get-it-right-soul-bombs-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zaigPe4NB94tc4CRshK46
Everyone is completely shocked by this, right? Like we're all absolutely positive that the timing was just a coincidence, aren't we? #FirstAmendment #NewHampshire
Cowboys downplay Commanders win as playoffs now on agenda https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-downplay-commanders-win-playoffs-now-agenda/a768ec530ead40db9bba44e5
Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I should probably take a break as the holidays approach. As they say "All work and no play make jack a dull boy"
Okay Hallmark channel - I'm listening.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
Moody Urbanity - Odes III 🎵
情绪化城市 - 颂 III 🎵
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Commanders lose QB Daniels to hamstring injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46653079/jayden-daniels-exits-commanders-cowboys-hamstring-injury
JTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…
Olivia's friend Danielle wearing a witch hat at a Horse show put on by Maine Mavericks at Whitney Point
#photo #photography #portrait
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: [Clutching his leg] Aaaah! [Tarrant and Dayna scramble for cover in the rocks.]
DAYNA: Are you all right?
TARRANT: Don't mind me, get them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/612 B7B5
There is 1 Thing Left for the Raiders to Accomplish https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-thing-left-accomplish
Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150
Right move for the Cowboys to play starters in the final 3 games? https://insidethestar.com/right-move-for-the-cowboys-to-play-starters-in-the-final-3-games
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remains confident, despite legal setbacks,
that the deportation facilities in Albania, promoted by her right-wing government, will function as planned.
Meloni pointed to an agreement within the EU on a tougher stance on migration.
The EU states recently agreed in Brussels to increase pressure on rejected asylum seekers and deport them more efficiently.
Return centres in countries outside the EU should also be possible in the future…
The front of the new Computing and Information Science building looked like a garden center when they were installing the landscaping
#photo #photography #cornell
Is Bijan Robinson REALLY the best player football right now? https://www.nfl.com/news/is-bijan-robinson-really-the-best-player-football-right-now
An interview with Ben Meiselas, who runs the left-leaning US media company MeidasTouch with his brothers Jordan and Brett, on Trump, right-wing media, and more (Steve Rose/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
VILA: I asked where Tarrant was.
AVON: Still, that's no longer a problem. [nudges one of the bounty hunters with his foot] We just inherited a flyer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/348 B7B3
Jeff Bezos has appointed himself co-CEO of an AI startup called Project Prometheus.
The startup, which will focus on developing AI for engineering and manufacturing in various fields,
has already received $6.2bn in funding
– more than many companies are able to raise in their lifetimes.
Leading the company alongside Bezos is his co-founder and co-CEO Vik Bajaj,
a celebrity tech executive in his own right.
Bajaj is a physicist and chemist best known for his …
Mailbag: Is Diggs in the doghouse? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-diggs-in-the-doghouse
During Thursday's two-hour phone call, Trump agreed to meet with Putin in Hungary in two weeks' time,
at a summit hosted by the country's far-right leader Viktor Orban in Budapest.
Trump said it would most likely be a "double meeting" between him and Putin, but that Mr Zelensky would be "in touch."
The summit will mark the 💥 first time Putin has set foot on EU soil 💥since the start of the war
- and is further complicated by him being ba…
Mailbag: Is Diggs in the doghouse? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-diggs-in-the-doghouse
Moody Urbanity - Odes 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 🎶
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Talkin’ Cowboys: The Herbert Report https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/talkin-cowboys-the-herbert-report